Monday, December 10, 2007

Is anyone else as old as me?

Remember this?

Click HERE and HERE and mostly for fun HERE for all your Commodore-64 (and Commodore-128!) goodness. I remember when Ned loaded some game with his CASSETTE DRIVE that took forever and looked like crap. And if it didn't load properly the first time, it took another 20 minutes to try again. Is RUNSTOP magazine still around?

Happy 25th, Commodore-64!

PS: I really like THIS even though it's Apple. It's an amazing example of using 1980s "state of the art" programming technology, that now looks incredibly primitive and dated... here's Jed's Other Poem.

I still have my Atari 800XL computer. I have a big old 5.5" disk drive for it too. The spring was going bad on it so in order to properly load the games, we would have to gently push in the disk so it would boot!!!

I learned how to program with that computer, which was my parents goal in buying it for me. I got REALLY creative and designed a "choose your own adventure" type game for my girlfriend (now wife) when we were in High School- her and her friends would play it during their computer class.

I also have some of my old Electronic Arts games "EA"- Realm of Impossibility is one- I show then to post 80's kids these days and they trip off it.

I had other fun games like Montezuma's Revenge, mail order monsters and the staples like Donkey Kong, Joust, Pac Mans, etc. I don't care what anyone says, give me those games ANY DAY!!

I remember typing in a program found in RUN 5 or RUN/STOP magazine that would make a "falling" sound when I pushed a certain button. It took me three or four hours to get it right for two seconds of fun whenever I hit ENTER. Wooo.

And amthcaictm, I want a computer like the one in STAR TREK so I can just stand there, cock my head, look at the ceiling and say "Computer, Google 'FLENSING KNIVES'!" and get an instantaneous response.